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How a handful of geeks defied the USSR (2011)(owni.fr)
43 points by ffffruit 11y ago|12 comments
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Valve new employee handbook [pdf](media.steampowered.com)
2 points by ffffruit 12y ago|0 comments
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Gunning-fog index(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ffffruit 12y ago|0 comments
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Jabuticaba(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ffffruit 13y ago|0 comments
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by ffffruit 13y ago
Same for IP addresses and http://www.whatismyip.com/
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Glasgow ice cream wars(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by ffffruit 13y ago|0 comments
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by ffffruit 13y ago
Good to see a mix of quantitative and qualitative measurements in there. While uptime and customer satisfaction are probably correlated, there are probably more factors influencing the latter.
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by ffffruit 13y ago
Sure, the process in my mind is the same as when they are given a TV. There is some level of filtering on what information they can obtain and a time delay of when they obtain it. Regardless there is so much information out there that even
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by ffffruit 13y ago
Give them access to a static, read-only dump of Wikipedia hosted on an internal prison server. Update said dump once every month.
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by ffffruit 13y ago
There is a similar article published in a notable bioinformatics journal explaining how errors were introduced when Excel was used and altered gene names irreversibly. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/5/80
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by ffffruit 14y ago
I agree. Majority of Central London ones are right in the middle of the financial district.
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by ffffruit 14y ago
499USD will most probably translate into 499GBP unfortunately
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by ffffruit 14y ago
Principality of Sealand also down
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by ffffruit 14y ago
An analogy I always like to use is: would you object to a team visiting your home, searching through all your physical and electronic belongings and then replacing everything exactly as they found it?
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by ffffruit 14y ago
Not a fair generalization. I've seen very big consultancy firms only accept Word (or raw text) as input so their systems can filter you out before a human eye sees your application. Also, I think head hunters want text so their software can
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by ffffruit 15y ago
What a waste of resources. Do they at least recycle them?
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by ffffruit 15y ago
T-Mobile UK, no phone number in HTTP headers.
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by ffffruit 15y ago
I remember reading somewhere that S. Jobs was of a similar mentality; at times he only kept a Tiffany's lamp, a chair and a bed in this apartment.
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by ffffruit 15y ago
Read the post again, you are missing the point. The price itself was the last drop. The overall experience they got, for a company that has been featured on Google Maps promotional publications, was abysmal.
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by ffffruit 15y ago
Surely one can a) minify b) remove 'unwanted' services from the file in order to speed things up?
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by ffffruit 15y ago
Good to see Acme right up there with the big players.
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by ffffruit 15y ago
This is also mentioned in Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_2033_(book) Amazing science fiction book.
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Planefinder(planefinder.net)
2 points by ffffruit 15y ago|0 comments
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by ffffruit 15y ago
Had some long discussions with colleagues about this and it just makes you wonder how "sophisticated" the algorithms behind health insurers are when the basic inputs are: postcode, smoker, age and gender.
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by ffffruit 15y ago
A true pioneer of the computing industry - farewell. His Standford graduation talk, always inspiring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
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by ffffruit 15y ago
Also good - bashmarks - directory bookmarks for the shell. http://www.huyng.com/bashmarks-directory-bookmarks-for-the-s...
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by ffffruit 15y ago
I have had a similar experience when applying for a graduate job in a satellite comms. company in London. I got a call literally eight months later, thanking me for my application and that its being considered. They claimed I would have an
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by ffffruit 15y ago
Clickable link: http://bit.ly/pdj0zi
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Ask HN: Post your GitHub punchcard - this is mine
5 points by ffffruit 15y ago|3 comments
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by ffffruit 15y ago
The reduce stage explanation is rather poor. Reduce aggregates based on key and does not just mash everything together like the proverbial grinder.

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